In the Li family's manor, Li Maolin stood behind his father with a bow.
"Do you know who lives in that cave?"
"Father, according to Third Brother, that is Lu Jiu's cave. However, the spiritual energy has been gathering there for more than half an hour. Other than that, there is nothing unusual. He should not be breaking through to the Core Forging stage."
The old man was expressionless. He just looked in the direction of Lu Ping's cave. No one knew what he was thinking.
After a long time, the old man suddenly said, "Open an opening in the direction of the cave and let the spiritual energy in the cave pass through."
Li Maolin was surprised and said hesitantly, "Father, why do this? He is just a rogue alchemist. If the spiritual energy in the cave is leaked, I am afraid it will take a month to recover. It will be a hindrance to the other cultivators in the family. Moreover, Ting Er and Zhu Er have just broken through. They need a large amount of spiritual energy to consolidate their cultivation …"
The old man waved his hand and said, "One month won't affect anything. Just do it!"
Li Maolin saw that his father had made up his mind, so he left to take charge of the opening of the protective array.
At this time, Lu Ping had continuously crushed seven hundred mid-grade spirit stones. A large amount of spiritual energy exploded. A part of it was directly absorbed by Lu Ping and turned into spiritual energy. The rest was absorbed by the Genchen bead to help Lu Ping refine his life-bound instrument.
At this time, the Genchen bead was like twelve bottomless abysses. Not only did it absorb the spiritual energy from the spirit stones, it also continuously attracted the spiritual energy from the surroundings.
Lu Ping gritted his teeth and took out two milky white spirit stones from his storage ring. This was a phenomenon that would only occur when the spiritual energy had accumulated to a very high level. These were two of the four high-grade spirit stones that Lu Ping had obtained from the trade fair.
Lu Ping couldn't care less about the bleeding in his heart. After exploding a hundred mid-grade spirit stones, although the density of the spiritual energy wasn't any less than a high-grade spirit stone, the purity of the spiritual energy was still far inferior.
Lu Ping crushed the two Upper Grade Spirit Stones, temporarily alleviating the huge amount of spiritual power needed to refine the Natal Magic Tool.
Lu Ping quickly swallowed a Triple Transformation Spirit Pellet. This was a Half-Step Core Forging Realm medicinal pellet he concocted using a thousand-year-old spirit herb he obtained from the trade fair. It was a Half-Step Core Forging Realm medicinal pellet that could restore one's spiritual energy.
In order to obtain the pill formula for this pill, Lu Ping had paid the price of two Blood Condensing Pills.
There were only six thousand-year-old spirit herbs used to concoct this kind of medicinal pellet. The difficulty of concocting this kind of medicinal pellet was similar to the Agerasia Pellet. With Lu Ping's current alchemy skills, he could easily achieve a 60% success rate with a single cauldron of Three Transformation Spirit Pellets. Lu Ping originally concocted this kind of medicinal pellet to save his life at a critical moment, but now, he couldn't care less.
The moment the Triple Transformation Spirit Pill entered his mouth, it melted in his stomach and turned into pure magic energy. Then, Lu Ping quickly refined it into his own magic energy.
This was all thanks to Lu Ping's special cultivation method. He could use this kind of pill without any worries. If it was any other cultivator, they would have to be at least at the peak of the Blood Condensation Realm to be able to control such a vast amount of spiritual energy.
Seeing that the spiritual energy in the cave was about to run out again, Lu Ping was considering whether he should temporarily stop refining the Genchen Pearl and let it rest for a while before continuing. However, if he did that, Lu Ping's Natal Magic Tool would inevitably have some flaws, making it even more difficult to control. Lu Ping would have to spend more time nourishing it in order to eliminate these negative effects.
At this moment, the Li Family Manor's protective formation suddenly activated. An invisible hole opened up in the direction of the cave, and a surge of spiritual energy that was much denser than the outside world gushed out.
At this moment, the cultivators in the cave all felt that the spiritual energy in the surroundings had suddenly increased by several times. After a moment of commotion, the cultivators naturally wouldn't let go of this opportunity. Regardless of the Li Family's reason for doing this, they all began to cultivate in seclusion.
Although a lot of this dense and turbulent magic energy was intercepted by the cultivators, most of it was still absorbed by the cave that had been gathering spiritual energy.
When everyone discovered this phenomenon while cultivating, they all cursed Lu Ping for being a freak. He clearly hadn't reached the Core Forging Realm yet, but he was causing a commotion that wasn't any weaker than a Core Forging Realm cultivator. Some clever cultivators secretly guessed that the reason the Li Family opened the protective formation to release the energy from the spirit vein might have something to do with this mysterious pill master.
For Lu Ping, this was undoubtedly a timely help. He didn't have time to think about the Li Family's intentions and hurriedly used the Three Transformation Spirit Pill to temporarily replenish his magic energy. He continued to use the Genchen Pearl to absorb spiritual energy and speed up the refining process.
Another hour passed and the spiritual energy that swept through the three families' cities slowly stopped. The thousands of cultivators in the three families' cities finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The Li Family Manor's protective formation roared and closed again, and the spiritual energy it was spitting out stopped.
During these two hours, the cultivators in the Li Family Inn's rented out caves had cultivated as much as several days of cultivation. At the same time, the density of spiritual energy in the area had been maintained for a long time. This caused the Li Family Manor to be favored by the cultivators in the three families' cities for a long time. This allowed Manager Li, who ran the Li Family Inn, to earn a large amount of spirit stones.
At this moment, Lu Ping was sitting cross-legged in the cave and recovering the large amount of magic energy he had consumed during this time. At the same time, he sent his divine sense into the space in his heart. Around the eight Condensed Blood Beads that Lu Ping had condensed, the twelve Genchen Pearls were like loyal guards protecting the eight Condensed Blood Beads in the center.
The Genchen Pearls slowly rotated around the Condensed Blood Beads as if they had a life of their own. They constantly absorbed pure spiritual energy and fused with Lu Ping's own magic energy. At the same time, the refined spiritual energy was fed back into the Condensed Blood Beads.
At this step, Lu Ping could finally be considered to have completed his natal mystic instrument, and the Origin Chen Grand Array formed by the twelve Origin Chen Beads could be considered to be complete.
However, just as Lu Ping was about to wake up from his meditative state, he discovered that after the Genchen Pearls were completely refined, they were feeding back the spiritual energy they had absorbed. Lu Ping originally thought that this would be completed in a short period of time. However, the spiritual energy fed back was too pure and even seemed endless. Thus, Lu Ping decided to continue his seclusion.
In order to complete the life treasure, the twelve Genchen Pearls had absorbed spiritual energy from a total of seven hundred mid-grade spirit stones and two high-grade spirit stones. They had also retained a portion of the spiritual energy gathered by the two Core Forging Enlightened Masters when they made their breakthroughs. In addition, Lu Ping's own profound magic energy and the medicinal power of a Three Transformation Spirit Pill were also added to the full support of the Li Family when they released the restrictions on their spirit veins.
Through this process, one could imagine the enormous amount of spiritual energy contained in the twelve Genchen Pearls!
After this enormous amount of spiritual energy was gradually refined by Lu Ping's magic energy, it began to slowly feed back to Lu Ping's body.
This was a normal phenomenon after the creation of a natal mystic instrument. However, Lu Ping's natal mystic instrument was too special. It was extremely difficult to refine the natal mystic instrument at the last moment, which caused the process to take several times longer.
Lu Ping began his seclusion. He continued to nourish the life treasure and cultivate at the same time. Another three months passed, and the spiritual energy feeding back from the Genchen Pearls finally ended. However, Lu Ping still did not wake up from his seclusion. This was because his cultivation had already reached the peak of the Eighth Layer of the Blood Condensation Realm. The Ninth Layer was just around the corner!
Another three months passed. Lu Ping's foundation bloodline finally began to sharpen its blade against the remaining wind-attribute Peng bloodline in his body.
However, the process of breaking through this time was not as smooth as before. The remaining Peng bloodline in his body displayed a powerful combat ability at the last moment. It started a final struggle against the foundation bloodline in his blood. At this moment, Lu Ping's bloodline was like a river being attacked by the tides. The violent turbulence caused Lu Ping to feel as if his body was being torn apart.
Lu Ping knew that this was the final obstacle for him to reach the peak of the Blood Condensation Realm. According to the legends, when the Seventh Patriarch created the world, the most powerful being in the world was Peng Laozu. Therefore, in the Blood Condensation Realm, other cultivators had to fuse with the Peng bloodline. It was also the most difficult bloodline to fuse with. Therefore, fusing with the Peng bloodline to reach the Ninth Layer of the Blood Condensation Realm was considered the final obstacle for cultivators to reach the Core Forging Realm. Cultivators who reached the Ninth Layer of the Blood Condensation Realm were also called peak Blood Condensation Realm cultivators.
Lu Ping's divine sense fused with the foundation bloodline. He felt a kind of anger, a kind of anger of being offended. It was as if in front of Lu Ping's foundation bloodline, other bloodlines could only wait for their fate of being devoured.
This was a feeling of superiority, a feeling of talent that could not be offended.
Lu Ping circulated the North Sea Wave Listening Mantra, and the foundation bloodline finally reevaluated its opponent. Then, it bared its fangs and brandished its claws at the Peng bloodline.
This time, there was no more suspense. The foundational bloodline had finally eliminated its last internal enemy. All of the spiritual energy in the Peng bloodline had been devoured by the foundational bloodline. The ninth Condensed Blood Bead in the core space gradually condensed and expanded. It only stopped growing when it was about a third the size of the original eight Condensed Blood Beads.
Lu Ping spat out a mouthful of green blood. It was still a useless bloodline that had lost all its spiritual energy. Lu Ping's foundation bloodline was still as tyrannical as ever.
After the ninth Condensed Blood Bead took shape, the twelve Genchen Beads suddenly trembled. The speed at which they revolved around the Condensed Blood Bead suddenly increased. Slowly, a faint spiritual energy whirlpool formed in the heart space, constantly attracting the spiritual energy around Lu Ping into his body. Then, it was refined by his bloodline and absorbed into the heart space, strengthening the ninth Condensed Blood Bead.
This was another benefit of having a natal magic tool. For a cultivator, a natal magic tool had an instinctive effect of gathering spiritual energy. Not only would it help the cultivator cultivate, it would also nourish the body.
The blood flowed through Lu Ping's body, but it no longer flowed like a small river. After the foundation bloodline devoured the last variant bloodline, the foundation bloodline became Lu Ping's only bloodline. At this moment, it seemed to take all the spiritual energy of the other six bloodlines and the two flood dragon bloodlines as its own. Then, it came to life in Lu Ping's blood, and an indescribable change occurred. It was like a vast, long river, using the waves as a horn and the waves as a long roar. It moved forward courageously towards the final juncture.
The Ninth Layer of the Blood Condensation Realm. At this moment, the distance to the Core Forging Realm was no longer far!
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